Perversity

Perversity
Title Perversity PDF eBook
Author Francis Carco
Publisher
Pages 286
Release 1928
Genre Brothers and sisters
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"A mystery story involving a pimp, a prostitute and her sexually immature brother set in the Paris slums and underworld."--Google.

Perverse Subsidies

Perverse Subsidies
Title Perverse Subsidies PDF eBook
Author Norman Myers
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 1998
Genre Business & Economics
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Much of the global economy depends on large scale government intervention in the form of subsidies, many of which are perverse in that they damage economies and environments. This study offers a view of subsidies world-wide with focus on the extent, causes and consequences of perverse subsidies.

The Perversity of Poetry

The Perversity of Poetry
Title The Perversity of Poetry PDF eBook
Author Dino Franco Felluga
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 221
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0791483975

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Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen." In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry's marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period's two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott's poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron's, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen.

Idols of Perversity

Idols of Perversity
Title Idols of Perversity PDF eBook
Author Bram Dijkstra
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 470
Release 1986
Genre Art
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This is a book filled with the dangerous fantasies of the Beautiful People of a century ago. It contains a few scenes of exemplary virtue and many more of lurid sin.

Why the Law Is So Perverse

Why the Law Is So Perverse
Title Why the Law Is So Perverse PDF eBook
Author Leo Katz
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 253
Release 2011-09
Genre Law
ISBN 0226426033

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"Katz focuses on four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation. First, legal decisions are essentially made in an either/or fashion... Second, the law is full of loopholes... Third, legal systems are loath to punish certain kinds of highly immoral conduct while prosecuting other far less pernicious behaviors... Finally, why does the law often prohibit what are sometimes called win-win transactions, such as organ sales or surrogacy contracts?" - from the University of Chicago Press press release

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations
Title Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations PDF eBook
Author David Mamet
Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages 132
Release 2014-10-03
Genre Drama
ISBN 0802191436

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David Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are not only lovers but roommates, and their story quickly evolves into a modern romance in all its sticky details. The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations “a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless.”

The Angel of the West Window

The Angel of the West Window
Title The Angel of the West Window PDF eBook
Author Gustav Meyrink
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Occult fiction
ISBN 9781903517819

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A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence. John Dee, through his 20th century descendant, is led by the Green Angel to the 'Other Side of the Mirror'. From the erotically alluring Assja Shotokalungin (in all her incarnations), the pliant Jane, the mischievous Queen Elizabeth 1 to the earless charlatan Kelley, the truly grotesque Bartlett Greene and the sinister Emperor Rudolph1, John Dee heads a cast which lingers in the mind long after the book has been put down.